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A child who was home alone when a man broke through the door and started ransacking the house thwarted the crime by calling 911, officials said.
A stranger started knocking on the door shortly before 2:59 p.m. Monday, March 30, at a home in the 7400 block of Palm Avenue. No sooner had the boy called 911 than the man kicked in the door an

Two vehicles collided nearly head-on and another vehicle crashed into the debris thrown on the roadside north of San Jacinto, CHP officials said.
The incident was reported at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, on Gilman Springs Road near Highway 79,

A traffic accident killed a pedestrian and hospitalized a second person in the Menifee-area community of Homeland, according to the California Highway Patrol website and Riverside County Fire Department officials.
The crash was reported at 8:33 p.m. Monday, March 30, at Highway 74 and Juniper Flats Road.
Thirty minutes later, the

Fifty-year-old Daniel Ferguson set off with camping gear, food, water and a cellphone, telling a friend he was going to travel the world, sheriff's officials say.
But his family said the Wildomar resident only planned to camp in the nearby Santa Ana Mountains, so they reported him missing March 20.
A ground and air search found n

The discovery of a liquid chemical in an abandoned and mostly empty 275-gallon container prompted a hazardous materials investigation in Riverside, city fire officials say.
The container was reported about 10 a.m. Monday, March 30, on a sidewalk near the 6000 block of Jurupa Avenue, about a mile north of Riverside Municipal Airport.

A 36-year-old woman reported that she was forced into sex by a man who picked her up in or near Corona and drove her around for hours before abandoning her in Norco, say Corona police.
The incident began Sunday evening, March 29, when the woman encountered a man about 40 years old who was driving a white pickup truck along Magnolia Avenu

A head-on collision killed an 18-year-old passenger in the Barstow-area community of Hinkley, say San Bernardino County coroner's investigators and California Highway Patrol officers.
The back-seat passenger died at the scene of the 12:42 p.m. wreck Saturday, March 28, along Highway 58 near Dixie Road. His identity had not been released

A man convicted of repeatedly slashing a California Highway Patrol officer while trying to leap from a Riverside freeway overpass will be retried on a charge of attempted murder of a peace officer, the Riverside County District Attorney's Office said Monday, March 30.
A jury deadlocked on that charge March 11 while

An 80-year-old dementia patient was rescued from a construction ditch where he'd gotten trapped in his car before dawn in Rancho Cucamonga, say San Bernardino County sheriff's officials.
A sergeant found the man in his vehicle at 3:45 a.m. Sunday, March 29, in a 12-foot-deep construction trench about 100 yards north of Etiwanda and Whitt

A hiker found human remains on a forest trail near Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains, sheriff's officials say.
The discovery was reported at 11:05 a.m. Friday, March 27, north of Highway 38 and Myrtle Avenue. The area is north of Big Bear City Airport.
Coroner's officials had released no information about the victim or the

Authorities are asking for help from the public to locate a Wildomar man reported missing March 20.
Daniel Ferguson, 50, had told family members he was going camping in the Ortega Mountains, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department news release said. A neighbor dropped him off along South Main Divide, a road that intersects the Ortega Hig

A lawn mower accident caused a natural gas leak near the Hemet-area community of Winchester, according to Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department officials.
The mower ruptured a 1 1/2-inch gas line along the 33800 block of Highway 74, roughly a quarter-mile east of Highway 79.
One home was evacuated as a precaution and an eastb

A security guard escaped without serious injury after a man with a knife attacked him Monday, March 30, outside a Riverside McDonald's.
Police Officer Javier Cabrera said the attacker fled after the stabbing in the parking lot of the fast-food restaurant at Magnolia and Hole avenues, and as of 3:30 p.m. Monday, he was still not identifie

A light earthquake jolted a remote stretch of Interstate 40 before dawn deep in the Mojave Desert, according to U.S. Geological Survey seismographs.
The magnitude-4.0 quake struck at 2:21 a.m. Monday, March 30, seven miles northwest of the tiny community of Ludlow.
The area is 34 miles south-southwest of Baker and 43 miles e

A man was arrested on suspicion of shooting an 18-year-old to death in a tiny mountain community near Lake Arrowhead, sheriff's officials said.
Alonzo Sarellano, 23, of Cedar Glen, was arrested on suspicion of ho

A man arrested Friday in connection with a series of bank robberies around Southwest Riverside County was identified as a Murrieta resident.
Alfred Durosca, 34, was arrested about 2 p.m. at the Murrieta Wal-Mart, shortly after police say he robbed a BBVA Compass Bank on Railroad Canyon Road in Canyon Lake.
A description of the su

A fiery crash involving a dairy truck blocked lanes of I-15 in Wildomar for hours Monday morning, authorities said.
About 12:30 a.m. a semi truck struck the west guardrail and concrete bridge north of the Lemon Street under crossing, California Highway Patrol officials said. The semi, which was carrying dairy products, caught fire and be

A man and woman from Redlands were arrested Saturday, March 28, on suspicion of stealing a car at gunpoint in Loma Linda.
Mindy Lynn Conner, 43, and Jason Scott Morse, 27, remained in custody Monday morning at the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino, jail records show.
After receiving reports of the carjacking, deputies lo

Authorities are trying to track down the driver of a U-Haul pickup truck who led San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies on a pursuit in the early morning hours of Sunday, March, 29.
At 1:57 a.m., deputies stopped a white Ford F-150 truck on 9th Street near Waterman Avenue, a

San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies are investigating reports of shots fired Friday, March 27, near the intersection of Golden Avenue and 33rd Street in unincorporated San Bernardino.
About 9:40 p.m. Friday, dispatchers received numerous calls from people who heard gunshots in the area, a Sheriff's Department news release said.

A man and a woman who stole items from a Salvation Army donation area and attacked an employee of the charity in Riverside are at large.
An employee of the organization -- a nonprofit whose mission is to proselytize and help the needy -- reported the crime about 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 25. He told police the duo walked up to a donations

A big rig has overturned near Interstate 15 in Rancho Cucamonga and emergency crews were on their way, CHP officials said.
The crash was reported at 8:53 a.m. Monday, March 30, near the Fourth Street offramp, a CHP incident log showed.
Paramedics were called to the scene and information on injuries was unavailable.
Con

All lanes of northbound I-15 reopened two minutes after midnight Monday, March 30, according to the CHP -- 17 hours after a big-rig crash and fuel spill created a massive traffic jam through the Cajon Pass.
Traffic didn't immediately dissipate, by 6 a.m. Monday it was moving freely, a Caltrans map showed.

A fire destroyed a storage shed near Hemet Sunday, March 29.
Firefighters went to the 24200 block of Juniper Flats Road in Green Acres, an unincorporated area west of Hemet, according to a Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department news release.
The fire was reported at 2:14 p.m. and contained in 25 minutes, Cal Fire said.